Artist’s Statement Wali (Possum-Marsupial): A Memorial to the Spirit of Beauty, Flight and Play Totem is a spirit being, appearing as a natural species or force of nature that serves …
DRAWING ON THE LAND: GARIGAL COUNTRY (Michael Glasheen)
(Feature image: a portrait of Michael Glasheen by Juno Gemes) Michael Glasheen has been a pioneering force in the fields of experimental film and interactive media since the late 1960s. …
Back to You (Es Foong)
Artist’s Statement ‘No light, no sound, no air, no touch….’ Some people read this piece, as a love story, a poem about longing. And some people experience it as something …
Colony Collapse (Ian Gibbins)
Artist’s Statement “I am still watching ghosts, eyes rimed with salt, homesick… this was never our natural state, our true inheritance… we should not be here…” While walking around the …
Leakage (Ian Gibbins)
Artist’s Statement ‘Under the hammer, blessed with character, a driveway absolved of tree fall, another pearly-eyed crow, a year’s worth of indecision on the compost heap…’ The text includes samples …
My Suspect Friend, Anxiety (Joel Ephraims)
The Pharmacy on Hospital Hill I observe the surroundings of this place where I come to make sense. The colour opulence of the glittering cars of buyers of subsidized drugs, …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 14: Disrupting the (Dis)Ableist Narrative
QPF 2019: In this episode of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Verity La Managing Editor Michele Seminara is joined at the 2019 Queensland Poetry Festival by poet Andy Jackson and …
The Cherry Picker’s Daughter (Melissa Lucashenko)
A tribute to the late Kerry Reed-Gilbert given by Melissa Lucashenko at the launch of Aunty Kerry’s memoir, The Cherry Picker’s Daughter, at the Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane on …
On Leaving Iran (Rebecca Ruth Gould)
The plane ascends. Women disrobe, crossing into Turkey’s airspace. Their hair cascades like waterfalls. I lift my skirt to let my legs breathe. So much sin is compressed between my …
Changing the Map: On Rape Culture in Australia (Julianne Negri)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel ‘We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.’ — Ursula Le Guin Predawn. I like …